Sol Philpott, aged 30, a serial violent offender formerly of Canterbury, Kent, has been released early from prison custody on licence after serving only 12 months of a 38-month sentence for terrorising his pregnant partner.
The prosecution followed a sustained 14-month campaign of domestic abuse committed between November 2023 and January 2025.
Canterbury Crown Court heard that Philpott subjected the victim to continuous psychological manipulation, controlling behaviour, and severe physical violence.
During the relationship, Philpott subjected the woman to intentional strangulation on two separate occasions.
In one assault, he compressed her throat with such force that her lips turned blue and she collapsed to the floor.
He trapped her wrist in a door, punched and kicked her, dragged her by the hair, and repeatedly struck her with a shoe, telling her: “I use my shoe. It will look better in court.”
The relentless abuse took a catastrophic toll on the young victim, who was forced to withdraw from her university degree course and suffered a miscarriage as a direct consequence of the trauma.
When the woman informed Philpott that she was ending the relationship, he initially walked away before returning, biting her face, and choking her again, warning: “I don’t mind going to jail for you.”
Passers-by who witnessed the attack failed to intervene, but the survivor eventually reported the escalating violence to Kent Police.
Philpott entered guilty pleas to eight charges:
- Five counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH)
- Two counts of intentional strangulation
- One count of criminal damage
The offences marked Philpott’s third violent relationship.
The court heard he had accumulated 11 previous convictions covering 20 offences, including custodial sentences imposed in 2019 and 2022 for attacks on previous female partners.
In one previous incident, Philpott struck a woman unconscious using a heavy marble chopping board before looming over her with a kitchen knife in the presence of a child.
In another attack, he elbowed a girlfriend unconscious in the back of a taxi and bit her face.
Pre-sentence reports prepared by the Probation Service classified Philpott as posing a “very high risk of serious harm” to intimate partners and a medium risk to the public.
Sentencing him in 2025, Judge Fowler stated that only immediate imprisonment was appropriate, imposing a custodial sentence of 38 months alongside a five-year restraining order barring contact with the victim and her mother and imposing exclusion zones in Broadstairs and Ramsgate.
Philpott was observed smiling as he was escorted from the dock to the cells.
Release Calculation: Under UK standard determinate sentencing legislation for non-violent offences under seven years, offenders are entitled to statutory release on licence at the halfway mark (19 months). With credit applied for time spent on remand awaiting sentence and statutory early release mechanisms, Philpott served just 12 months in prison custody before being released into the community under the supervision of the Probation Service for the remainder of his term.
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